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2007 jobs.perl.org report

Journal written by brian_d_foy (44) and posted by brian_d_foy on 2008.01.01 19:50   

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Year | Total | Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep   Oct   Nov   Dec
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2001 |   280 |   0    2    8   21   40   34   33   29   34    30    35    14
2002 |   413 |  34   33   35   16   45   26   37   46   33    42    31    35
2003 |   560 |  43   36   56   56   21   39   44   64   53    52    52    44
2004 |   949 |  75   58   78   88   74   88   82   87   65    87    85    82
2005 |  1429 |  93  110  120  135  135  125  115  113  106   132   144   101
2006 |  1857 | 164  138  157  151  166  153  140  176  152   172   179   109
2007 |  1966 | 182  156  181  190  177  168  176  165  145   179   148    99
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I'm not affiliated with jobs.perl.org, and this is only the simplest of analyses. I didn't try to correct for duplicate posts where the same job was re-advertised. jobs.perl.org has their own stats, although Dave Rolsky seemed to think my numbers might be better. I don't know if I believe him. :)

I don't attempt to draw any conclusions about the popularity (up or down) of Perl from these numbers. In general, I think that the continual uptrend is more about people finding out about the free service than the same market having more jobs.

I made this same report in 2006 too, and there are some interesting links in the comments. Also interesting is renodino's graphs about jobs on Dice and the code he wrote to make them, along with the discussion about the usefulness of any conclusions.

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Tired of "Perl is dead" FUD ? 16 comments [+]

Yeah, me too. But I'm a capitalist, so I like to see what people are writing checks for. As I'm fed up with the various unsubstantiated claims, I've whipped up a little graphic of job posts on Dice that will hopefully cheer you up. I'll try to keep it updated regularly. If nothing else, it'll give us all something to watch as we're overtaken by our Ruby and Python overlords.

• More jobs ... (Score:2)

  by ask (83) <ask@develooper.com> on 2008.01.01 21:13 (#59891) Homepage Journal

  "In general, I think that the continual uptrend is more about people finding out about the free service than the same market having more jobs."
  
  It used to be that the vast majority of feedback to the site was "thanks, it helped us quickly find N qualified candidates and we hired one of them last week" - now most of the feedback is "we can't find anyone; do you have any suggestions for our posting?"
  
  I'm pretty sure the number of happily employed Perl programmers is up ...
  
    - ask

  --
  

  -- ask bjoern hansen [askbjoernhansen.com], !try; do();

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  • Re:More jobs ... by brian_d_foy (Score:2) 2008.01.01 22:12
  • works for me by TeeJay (Score:2) 2008.01.02 7:19
    • Re:works for me by chudpi (Score:1) 2008.01.02 16:58
      • Re:works for me by kaare (Score:1) 2008.01.03 4:45
        • Re:works for me by chudpi (Score:1) 2008.01.03 12:30
          • Re:works for me by chromatic (Score:1) 2008.01.03 14:32
          • Re:works for me by kaare (Score:1) 2008.01.03 17:44
      • Re:works for me by TeeJay (Score:2) 2008.01.03 5:22
• Comparative Job Trend Graphs (Score:1)

  by Tim Bunce (2254) on 2008.01.02 7:31 (#59901) Homepage Journal

  I researched these for my Keynote at the London Perl Workshop:
  
  http://use.perl.org/~Tim+Bunce/journal/35267 [perl.org]
  
  

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• Don't Panic! (Score:1)

  by renodino (6856) on 2008.01.02 10:42 (#59904) Homepage Journal

  Just an FYI RE: The Dynamic Languages Jobs Barometer [presicient.com]: The current numbers vs. baseline numbers have been way off the last week, presumably due to the holidaze. It'll be interesting to see how they rebound, tho.

  Also, here's someone [zedshaw.com]who's looking for a job. Perhaps someone can help this poor Rails refugee out ?

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